WO2003056109A1 - Blocs de construction modulaires a tenon et mortaise pour abri habitable - Google Patents

Blocs de construction modulaires a tenon et mortaise pour abri habitable Download PDF

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WO2003056109A1
WO2003056109A1 PCT/CA2002/000001 CA0200001W WO03056109A1 WO 2003056109 A1 WO2003056109 A1 WO 2003056109A1 CA 0200001 W CA0200001 W CA 0200001W WO 03056109 A1 WO03056109 A1 WO 03056109A1
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Ali Kashif Al-Ghitta
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
    • E04B—GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS
    • E04B2/00—Walls, e.g. partitions, for buildings; Wall construction with regard to insulation; Connections specially adapted to walls
    • E04B2/02—Walls, e.g. partitions, for buildings; Wall construction with regard to insulation; Connections specially adapted to walls built-up from layers of building elements
    • E04B2/14—Walls having cavities in, but not between, the elements, i.e. each cavity being enclosed by at least four sides forming part of one single element
    • E04B2/16—Walls having cavities in, but not between, the elements, i.e. each cavity being enclosed by at least four sides forming part of one single element using elements having specially-designed means for stabilising the position
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
    • E04B—GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS
    • E04B2/00—Walls, e.g. partitions, for buildings; Wall construction with regard to insulation; Connections specially adapted to walls
    • E04B2/02—Walls, e.g. partitions, for buildings; Wall construction with regard to insulation; Connections specially adapted to walls built-up from layers of building elements
    • E04B2002/0202—Details of connections
    • E04B2002/0204—Non-undercut connections, e.g. tongue and groove connections
    • E04B2002/0208—Non-undercut connections, e.g. tongue and groove connections of trapezoidal shape
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
    • E04B—GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS
    • E04B2/00—Walls, e.g. partitions, for buildings; Wall construction with regard to insulation; Connections specially adapted to walls
    • E04B2/02—Walls, e.g. partitions, for buildings; Wall construction with regard to insulation; Connections specially adapted to walls built-up from layers of building elements
    • E04B2002/0202—Details of connections
    • E04B2002/0204—Non-undercut connections, e.g. tongue and groove connections
    • E04B2002/0228—Non-undercut connections, e.g. tongue and groove connections with tongues next to each other on one end surface and grooves next to each other on opposite end surface

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  • This invention relates to the field of materials for constructing habitable shelters from a plurality of light weight, insulated and rigid interlocking modular components, and in particular, it relates to modular block components which may be interlocked using modified tenon and slot mortises and efficiently assembled in adjacent vertically offset arrays to form a habitable shelter having prefabricated siding.
  • shelters for use as dwellings, hospitals or storage areas are usually a priority.
  • the lack of available construction time, materials or expertise at the scene renders on site construction by traditional methods impracticable.
  • the modular tenon and slot mortise building blocks of the present invention for the modular construction of habitable shelters such as emergency shelters, greenhouses, low-cost housing, portable offices or bunkhouses for construction site, or other temporary buildings for human habitation, include, for each building block: (a) hollow rectangular parallelepiped center block, (b) an outer siding member, (c) a first tenon member sandwiched between the center block and the siding member, (d) an inner facing member, and (e) a second tenon member sandwiched between the center block and the facing member.
  • the tenon members are parallel and mounted to longitudinal sides of the center block.
  • the tenon members are positioned and of a length so as to extend longitudinally of a first end of the center block by a first distance and so as to form mortised first and second recesses having a first depth behind the first and second tenon members, respectively, between the siding member and the center block and between the facing member and the center block.
  • the first distance is substantially equal to the first depth.
  • the tenon members are each, in lateral cross-section, chevron-shaped so as to form: (a) a ridge along the upper surface of the tenon members having a triangle-shape in lateral cross-section, and (b) a channel along the lower surface of the tenon members having the triangle-shaped in lateral cross-section.
  • the siding member has a lower generally planar skirt which extends, cantilevered, gently flared downwardly from a base of the siding member mounted adjacent the first tenon member.
  • a first plane containing a lowermost surface of the center block also contains a lowermost edge of the facing member
  • a second plane, parallel to the first plane, containing an uppermost surface of the center block also contains uppermost edges of the facing member and the siding member.
  • the siding and facing members have oppositely disposed rectangular planar exposed surfaces.
  • the building block is radiussed around a comer so as to form comer blocks, wherein in the second embodiment the siding member is radially outermost relative to the comer and facing member radially innermost, and wherein in the third embodiment the facing member is radially outermost relative to the comer and the siding member is radially innermost, the second and third embodiments thereby forming outer and inner comer blocks respectively.
  • the center block has frangible upper and lower walls whereby the frangible walls may be selectively broken through for passage of conduit through stacked rows, or through columns of the building blocks.
  • Figure 1 is, in front perspective view, a wall building block of the present invention.
  • Figure 2 is, in rear perspective view, the building block of Figure 1.
  • Figure 3 is, in front perspective view, a partially constructed wall of the building blocks of Figure 1.
  • Figure 4 is, in rear perspective view, the partially constructed wall of Figure 3.
  • Figure 5 is, in perspective view, a partially constructed walled habitat using the wall building blocks of Figure 1 and the corner building blocks of Figures 6-9.
  • Figure 6 is, in rear perspective view, an outer corner block of the present invention.
  • Figure 7 is, in front perspective view, the outer comer block of Figure 6.
  • Figure 8 is, in rear perspective view, an inner comer block of the present invention.
  • Figure 9 is, in front perspective view, the inner corner block of Figure 8.
  • Figure 10 is, in perspective view, an assembled honeycomb cell sandwich sheet.
  • Figure 10a is, in perspective view, one half of the sheet of Figure 10.
  • Figure 10b is, in perspective view, the other half of the sheet of Figure 10.
  • Figure 11 is, in exploded perspective view, an alternative embodiment of the present invention.
  • Figure 12 is, in exploded end view, the alternative embodiment of Figure
  • Figure 13 is, in end view, the alternative embodiment of Figure 12 with the upper and lower members mated together.
  • Figure 14a is, in end elevation view, a modular sheet.
  • Figure 14b is, in exploded end elevation view, the modular sheet of Figure 14a.
  • Figure 14c is, in perspective view, the upper half of the modular sheet of
  • the tenon and slot mortise building block 10 of the present invention has a central hollow center block 12 which is shaped as a rectangular parallelepiped. Opposite longitudinal sides 14a and 14b of the center block define rigid mounting surfaces to which are mounted rigid elongate tenon members 16a and 16b respectively.
  • the tenon members are offset longitudinally relative to block 12 so as to project longitudinally from end 18a of block 12, preferably by the same distance for each tenon member.
  • Tenon member 16a and tenon member 16b are each offset so as to project from end 18a by a distance "a”.
  • the opposite ends of tenon members 16a and 16b are recessed relative to end 18b of block 12 by a distance "b” so as to form slot mortises corresponding in size to the tenon projections.
  • Rigid siding member 20 is mounted onto tenon member 16a in oppositely disposed relation to block 12 so as to sandwich tenon member 16a therebetween.
  • Siding member 20 in the preferred embodiment has a longitudinal length "c", which is the same as the longitudinal length of block 12.
  • Siding member 20 is aligned laterally relative to block 12 so that end surfaces of the siding member are coplanar with the ends of the block 12.
  • end surface 20b of siding member 20 is coplanar with end 18b of block 12.
  • tenon member 16a projects longitudinally by the same distance relative to block 12 as siding member 20.
  • tenon member 16a forms a mortised recess having a depth "b" relative to both block 12 and siding member 20.
  • the longitudinal projection of tenon member 16a functions as a tenon which interlocks with a corresponding recess, which acts as a slot mortise, in the next adjacent building block in a horizontal array of such blocks.
  • tenon member 16b is sandwiched between block 12 and internal facing member 22.
  • the longitudinal projection of tenon member 16b by distance “a” forms a tenon which mates into a corresponding recess, which acts as a second slot mortise, in the next adjacent building block 10.
  • the recess has a depth "b” formed by the offset of tenon member 16b relative to both block 12 and facing member 22.
  • dimension "a” and dimension "b” are equal so that the projecting ends of tenon members 16a and 16b snugly mate against the recessed ends of corresponding tenon members 16a and 16b in a next adjacent building block 10.
  • tenon members 16a and 16b have identically chevron-shaped cross sections defining a vertically projecting ridge 24 which extends along the top edges of tenon members 16a and 16b parallel to the upper surface 26a of block 12.
  • Ridges 24 are triangularly-shaped in lateral cross section for snug mating engagement into v-shaped channels 28 formed longitudinally along the undersides of tenon members 16a and 16b.
  • ridges 24 mate into the corresponding channels 28 in a next vertically adjacent building block 10 when forming a wall constructed modularly of building blocks 10 such as seen in Figures 3 and 4.
  • Channels 28 extend the full length of the tenon members and the vertices 28a of channels 28 are parallel to the lower surface 26b of block 12.
  • first building block 10 is offset longitudinally relative to neighbouring blocks 10' and 10" in the next adjacent row of building blocks below first building block 10, and is similarly offset to a next adjacent row of building blocks 10 in any next adjacent row above.
  • first building block 10 is interlocked with the next adjacent blocks by tenon and slot mortise interlocking whereby the projections of tenon members 16a and 16b interlock with the mortised recesses behind the corresponding tenon members 16a'" and 16b'" in building block 10'".
  • first building block 10 interlocks its protruding tenon members into the recesses formed behind tenon members 16a and 16b between block 12 and siding member 20 and facing member 22 respectively.
  • first building block 10 is offset so that the intersection 30 between building blocks 10' and 10" in the row below first building block 10 lie in a plane which generally laterally bisects block 12 along its length.
  • siding member 20 extends below the plane containing lower surface 26b of block 12 so as to form a downwardly extending cantilevered flange 20a.
  • the flange may be gently outwardly flared.
  • the outer surface of flange 20a may be inclined relative to, for example, the plane containing longitudinal side 14a of block 12 so as to give the appearance of conventional siding in an assembled wall.
  • Flange 20a may be mounted to tenon member 16a by means of a base member 20c.
  • facing member 22 is also rectangular in size similarly to base 20c, that is, so as not to project below the plane containing lower surface 26b or above the plane containing upper surface 26a.
  • facing members 22 abut one another to form a planar interior surface of the habitat
  • siding members 20 abut along their horizontal rows and overlap the next adjacent row below to provide a sealed shedding of rain water and the like.
  • modified comer blocks may be employed which, based on the same interlocking principles as building blocks 10, allow for formation of inside and outside rounded columnar comers. This introduces a flexibility of construction so that a habitat constructed of building blocks 10 and the modified corner blocks does not necessarily have to merely form a rectangular structure but, rather, maybe more elaborate.
  • outside corner blocks 32 and inside corner blocks 34 may be vertically mounted one on top of another so as to form a vertical column 36 of outer corner blocks 32 or a vertical column 38 of inner comer blocks 34.
  • Outer comer blocks 32 have an outer radiussed siding member 40 for abutted mating with the ends of siding members 20 on adjacent building blocks 10 in adjacent orthogonal walls.
  • a radiussed hollow center block 42 sandwiches a radiussed tenon member 44a between siding member 40 and center block 42.
  • An inner radiussed internal facing member 46 sandwiches a tenon member 44b between facing member 46 and center block 42.
  • inner comer block 34 has an outer radiussed facing member 48, a radiussed center block 42, and an inner radiussed siding member 50.
  • An outer radiussed tenon member 44a is sandwiched between outer radius facing member 48 and center block 42.
  • An inner radiussed tenon member 44b is sandwiched between inner radiussed siding member 50 and center block 42.
  • inner comer blocks 34 are substantially identical to building blocks 10 except for the radiussing of the tenon members, the center block, the facing member and the siding member. Otherwise the interlocking functionality remains the same as with building blocks 10 and outer comer blocks 32.
  • a sandwiched honeycomb roof structure as seen in Figure 10 may be provided as a lightweight modular roofing which may be used to fabricate a roof onto a habitat made according to the present invention.
  • the sandwiched honeycomb cell sheet 52 has parallel spaced apart planar members 54 sandwiching therebetween upper and lower arrays 56 and 58 respectively of nested honeycomb cells 60 and 62 respectively, better seen in Figures 10a and 10b.
  • the modular roofing may be constructed of sheeting or panels 100 comprised of interlocking T-sheets 102 which mate one to the other in opposed facing relation by snapping pins 104 into mating recesses 106 in legs 108 cantilevered from base sheets 1 10. The resulting panels 100 are formed of an adjacent array of parallel beams.
  • the center blocks may have frangible walls so that, for example, if it is wished to run a vertical conduit upwardly through a wall constructed of blocks 10, 32 or 34, the frangible upper and lower walls of the center blocks are broken through so as to allow journalling of the conduit upwardly through the blocks vertically aligned in mounted array.
  • pre-formed apertures may be provided in the walls of the block for passage of conduit therethrough, or for pouring concrete therethrough in the manner of a columnar concrete form.
  • external walls of habitable structures may be constructed without the need for special tools, binders or skilled artisans.
  • the construction is a one step assembly which results in an insulated wall having exterior sidings and an interior finished surface using modular components which resemble lightweight bricks. Being lightweight further eases calculations of any required foundation. Further, the components are reusable and, due to their interlocking commonality, additions to existing structures or redesign of existing structures may be accomplished with relative ease.
  • the building blocks of the present invention reduces the environmental impact such as encountered with traditional building methods. It will also be appreciated that the repetitive modularity of assembly results in simplicity of both assembly and un-assembly without special tooling to allow for re-using of the blocks. Further, the use of hollow structures not only reduces weight and provides for insulation space, but also provides air tunnels for service structures such as water piping and wiring. As will be understood to one skilled in the art, the external and internal facing of each block may be adapted to allow traditional finishing of the surfaces if required.
  • the building blocks of the present invention may also be used to construct non-weight bearing walls for column and beam structures. As will also be understood to one skilled in the art, walls constructed according to the present invention are readily adaptable to accept the available different roofing systems. Further, walls constructed according to the present invention may be adapted to interact with most conventional hardware, doors and window systems presently available.
  • a building block may for example be manufactured by an injection molding process. However, it is often more cost effective to manufacture using an extrusion process.
  • An example of how a building block may be manufactured using an extrusion process is the subject of Figures 11-13.
  • a single building block of any suitable length may be constructed of interlocking upper and lower members 10a and 10b.
  • the upper member 10a fits over the lower member 10b so as to snugly friction fit upper flanges 70 into the cavity defined by upper surface 26a and sides 14a and 14b.
  • Flanges 70 form the upper extremities of a U-shaped channel 72 which extends beneath sidewalls 14a and 14b so that the bottom of the channel defines lower surface 26b.
  • Auxiliary channels 74 extend cantilevered outwardly on oppositely disposed sides of channel 72.
  • Auxiliary channels 74 extend the length of channel 72 parallel to the upper edges of flanges 70.
  • Auxiliary channels 74 are vertically spaced from the upper edges of flanges 70 so that when flanges 70 are snugly seated between sides 14a and 14b and against upper surface 26a, auxiliary channels 74 snug up against the lowermost edges of sides 14a and 14b and lips 76 of auxiliary channel 74 snugly mate into corresponding notches 78 on the interior sides of siding 20 and facing 22.

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L'invention concerne des blocs de construction modulaires à tenon et mortaise qui comprennent chacun : (a) un bloc central parallélépipède rectangle creux, (b) un élément latéral extérieur, (c) un premier élément tenon pris en sandwich entre le bloc central et l'élément latéral, (d) un élément facial intérieur et (e) un second élément tenon pris en sandwich entre le bloc central et l'élément facial. Les éléments tenon sont parallèles et montés sur les côtés longitudinaux du bloc central. Les éléments tenon, qui sont positionnés, et leur longueur couvre le sens longitudinal d'une première extrémité du bloc central d'une première distance de façon à former un premier et un second évidements à mortaise présentant une première profondeur derrière le premier et le second éléments tenon, respectivement, entre l'élément latéral et le bloc central et entre l'élément facial et le bloc central. La première distance est sensiblement égale à la première profondeur.
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EP20020805718 EP1470300A1 (fr) 2002-01-02 2002-01-02 Blocs de construction modulaires a tenon et mortaise pour abri habitable
AU2002218918A AU2002218918A1 (en) 2002-01-02 2002-01-02 Modular tenon and slot mortise building blocks for habitable shelters
EA200501072A EA200501072A1 (ru) 2002-01-02 2002-01-02 Строительный блок для соединения в шип, предназначенный для сооружения жилых укрытий

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